Few things so vastly improve a morning as a passing, "Hey, just so you know, there's food on the take table." One trump: the aforementioned food is candy from Kentucky, and is thus infused with bourbon.
One of our copy editors received a care package from the Bluegrass State today - a lovely assortment of five boxes of bourbon candies, bourbon cookies of some kind, and what appeared to be a bourbon fruit cake. She generously left them out to share, and the rest of us descended upon the stash. So what if it was only 11 a.m.? It was 5 o'clock in Edinburgh...
I understand the genesis of the bourbon ball; according to the Rebecca-Ruth legend, a fan told one of the ladies that he loved her chocolate and Kentucky bourbon, and so the two were mixed. (You can visit the factory in Franklin and...um...sample.) These weren't Rebecca-Ruth, but they were just as good. The chocolate balls I understand, and the bourbon fruit cake was, perhaps, a logical extension, but what amused me this morning were the two boxes of bourbon chocolate-covered cherries. (They weren't bad, but I wonder who came up with the notion.)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
Following Gustav
Watching the hurricane coverage this morning, I'm relieved that so many people up and down the coast did the smart this this time and got the hell out of Dodge over the weekend. Yes, the surge is over the levee, but things seem to be holding for now...and fortunately for New Orleans, Gustav didn't make a direct hit. Of course, Fox just said they have two ships unaccounted for in the canal, which would be something of a concern.
My sincere hope is that the camera crews are getting combat pay for this. Geraldo just asked his cameraman to walk right up to the levee, then climb on top. One NBC reporter dragged his crew into the middle of the street and almost got blown away by hurricane winds. Someone yesterday said the media had to fill out release wavers to enter New Orleans, including next-of-kin information. You know, if the talent wants to be suicidal, that's their business, but Geraldo was saying things like, "Come on up here, right to the wall...I've got you...wow, look at the water surging over..."
Sure, Geraldo. Sure.
My sincere hope is that the camera crews are getting combat pay for this. Geraldo just asked his cameraman to walk right up to the levee, then climb on top. One NBC reporter dragged his crew into the middle of the street and almost got blown away by hurricane winds. Someone yesterday said the media had to fill out release wavers to enter New Orleans, including next-of-kin information. You know, if the talent wants to be suicidal, that's their business, but Geraldo was saying things like, "Come on up here, right to the wall...I've got you...wow, look at the water surging over..."
Sure, Geraldo. Sure.
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